Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... language , Chaucer is the father of English poetry , for it was he who first gave to our language a definite and classic form , maintaining it on the one hand by the safeguard of a literary defence from the encroachments of Norman ...
... language , Chaucer is the father of English poetry , for it was he who first gave to our language a definite and classic form , maintaining it on the one hand by the safeguard of a literary defence from the encroachments of Norman ...
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... language . The science of language is also an historical science , and indeed this branch of it is the most important . For all speech is imitative . Children imitate the sounds used by their parents to denote certain meanings . Back ...
... language . The science of language is also an historical science , and indeed this branch of it is the most important . For all speech is imitative . Children imitate the sounds used by their parents to denote certain meanings . Back ...
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... Language The different families of languages are divided into classes , according to their formation . One group is known by the absence of inflection ; that is to say , they do not distinguish the cases and other grammatical attributes ...
... Language The different families of languages are divided into classes , according to their formation . One group is known by the absence of inflection ; that is to say , they do not distinguish the cases and other grammatical attributes ...
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